The first monograph to treat comprehensively the epoch-making though now too often forgotten scandal that rocked German political culture from 1906 to 1909, now in English translation.
Traveling from Harlem in the 1910s to 1920s Paris, 1930s Berlin, 1950s New York and beyond, this book presents a portrait of twentieth-century gay culture and the men and women who both redefined themselves and changed history.
The book sheds new light on Wilhelm's troubled youth, his involvement in social and political scandals, and his growing thirst for glory, which, combined with his overwhelming nationalism and passion for the navy provided the impetus for a ...
Winner of two Lambda Rising AwardsThis richly revealing anthology brings together for the first time the vital new scholarly studies now lifting the veil from the gay and lesbian past....
The book examines the short- and long-term consequences of each controversy for those involved and the impact each scandal had on gay and mainstream society.
Argues scientific research shows homosexuality is not merely a set of behaviors anyone might show, but that homosexuals are a distinct group of people, and discusses the social implications
Examines how changes from the Industrial Revolution prior to World War I brought about radical transformation in society, changes in education, and massive migration in population that led to one of the bloodiest events in history.
A personal and political analysis of the reign of Kaiser Wilhelm II using new archival sources.
Maximilian Harden, editor of the magazine Die :(,ukunft (The Future), which appeared weekly from 1892 until 1922, was Wilhelminian Germany's greatest publicist.
8 9 10 6 Sir James Reid, diary for 18 January 1901, Michaela Reid, Ask Sir James. Sir James Reid, Personal Physician to Queen Victoria and Physician-in-Ordinary to Three Monarchs, London 1987, pp. 203f. 7 Eulenburg to Kaiser Wilhelm II, ...
Andreas Gestrich and Margit Schulte Beerbühl (London: German Historical Institute, 2011), 99–132, here 127–28. See also Jack Guenther,“'Gateway to the World': Hamburg and the Global German Empire, 1881–1914” (BA thesis, ...